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Auction: 13027 - The Collector's series sale
Lot: 1932

Zanzibar
1895-96 Issue
½a. to 5r. set of fifteen reprinted in 1897 made for the circulation to U.P.U. members, each handstamped "specimen" diagonally by a Receiving Authority, effectively confirming the fact that this set comes from the special printing. A very rare and possibly unique set. Photo

Note: According to Marcus Samuel Zanzibar circulated the 1895-96 "Zanzibar" issue and Provisionals, all without Specimen overprints, on 24 April 1897. As by this time stocks had become exhausted the stamps for U.P.U. distribution had to be reprinted as for similar issues of British East Africa

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£1,400